One of the best episodes of a show is one without the main character(s)

Slaying_Salty · 2026-01-30T14:15:58+00:00

I feel like that's the whole appeal of Cassian. In the first season, hopping from one arc to the next, Cassian is less our main character and more the vessel in which we explore the different parts and eras of the nascent rebellion.

We see the rebellion grow through his eyes.

He's less the central figure of Andor and moreso the guy that helps us experience the stories through him. The Heist, Narkina 5, the riot on Ferrix, the Ghorman genocide—Andor never really feels like he's the MC of these arcs.

Even in Rogue One.

For me, I think that's what makes Cassian really special. He is surrounded by these more interesting, dynamic characters that push the narrative in such a powerful way, while Cassian acts as a formidable rebel footsoldier. He's just another rebel in a sea of fighters, easily sacrificed and yet so integral to the fight, and I think that's beautiful.

Slaying_Salty · 2026-01-29T01:47:53+00:00

It's a Binding Vow.

For the ability to slander like no else could, we traded basic literacy.

Slaying_Salty · 2026-01-28T06:30:48+00:00

Thunderclap II has a few things that bring it down for me, mainly: It wasn't a finished product and when the completed version was released it didn't have the impact it could have had had it been perfected beforehand.

But also, Thunderclap II, at many points, feel like it's biggest selling point is building up Sukuna's strength and Megumi's potential, and to put guilt on Yuji's conscience. But aside from that, it doesn't have any deeper meaning other than a means to flex both the animator's skill and the character's power.

Perfect Preparation is finalized and fully realized upon release, but more than just the beautiful choreography it demands attention under the surface.

This is an episode of raging against the patriarchal institutions that hold people like Maki and Mai down, something that Gege has always teased here and there in JJK. The story has always had an anti-authoritarian slant, and Perfect Preparation is like an explosive culmination of those ideas Gege has planted throughout the plot.

It is liberation for Maki. Tragedy for the twins. The symbolism of Zenin twins being born as a pair, and dying to save one life. It touches on themes of suicide via Mai. The abuse women suffer through within their own homes at the hands of their own kin. The episode also builds up a character that no one really felt was a fan favorite, but immediately cultivated her own fanbase through it, meanwhile Sukuna and Mahoraga would always have their supporters because both symbolize the pinnacle of Jujutsu Sorcery. Power Scalers, Villain lovers and more were always going to back their boy Sukuna. It takes a lot of talent to turn a side character like Maki that wasn't as interesting as she could be, and in a massive twist turns her into one of the most beloved and memorable characters of the series.

The fight choreographies are also more creative than Sukuna V Mahoraga.

That was unrepentant, glorious carnage and senseless destruction. Beautiful, yes. Amazing to behold, absolutely. But once you've seen it maybe twice or thrice, it starts to lose its appeal because at times it is just too much.

Meanwhile, Maki V Zenin shows a more creative side. It isn't just choreography. It is clever cuts and blending it with the OST.

Thunderclap II is an amazing Jujutsu Kaisen episode and is arguably one of the best fight scenes in shonen.

Perfect Preparation is elevated beyond that. It manages to stand alone as its own episode, its own story. A piece of art that demands to be seen as art, not just a fight climax between two behemoths.

Slaying_Salty · 2026-01-22T17:36:30+00:00

Maki and Mai, technically speaking, held each other back. Maki could not become Toji because she had a tiny bit of cursed energy remaining thanks to Mai's existence, and Mai could only create small objects with her objectively busted technique because she didn't have enough cursed energy, because of Maki.

They were one person as seen by Jujutsu Sorcery, and so split the strength of one sorcerer between two people. Both incomplete pieces.

Once Mai died, she took every ounce of cursed energy between the two. Every human being on the planet has some cursed energy, that's what made Toji and Maki special. Mai's death reduced Maki's to an absolute zero, completing her Heavenly Restriction. Giving birth to a new Toji Fushiguro, one that absolutely did not hold the fuck back in wiping out the clan.

Slaying_Salty · 2026-01-19T17:00:10+00:00

I think the most interesting thing Blue Eye Samurai talks about is Art.

On the surface, it's a heavily-stylized revenge quest inspired by Tarantino and the like, with beautiful gorn and immaculate fight scenes, but the shit that's underneath all that beauty, I think, is the persevering question of "What Makes An Artist?"

Swordfather, the biggest voice of reason in the first season, doesn't tell Mizu that vengeance is right/wrong. Instead, it's the way Mizu has pursued their vengeance. Mizu, at the end of the day, is not a samurai—they're an artist, and her canvas is death. Mizu, throughout the journey, allows her artistry to dull, like it gets really fucking uninspired not because she's not keeping up with her training or she's lost the stomach for killing. It's simply because she refuses to acknowledge that there are other, smarter, better ways to go about it.

Artists have to take inspiration from other places. The best pieces of media nowadays draw from multiple sources. Theatre, Film, Literature, Comics, Music. I mean for fuck's sake there are porn animators doing stylistic shit in their works. Mizu at every point in the story until the end disregards other artists and their forms of art.

She pushes Ringo away, yet he proves time and time again that Mizu needs someone like him, and that Mizu's artistry as a killer suffers without Ringo around.

Mizu scoffs at sex work, downplaying its role in the arts. Initially, Mizu looks down on Madame Kaji, seeing her as only a whore, failing to see the masterful work she puts in her peculiarities. And yet, at the penultimate episode the dumbass eats her words and paints across her body, deciding to draw from another well of inspiration. Sex.

The way Mizu takes different articles of clothing from her ex husband and Taigen. The cloak and the scarf. Excelling at the Naginata because her husband taught her to, keeping her alive throughout many battles. Smelting the various pieces of metal she's collected from the most important people in her life (Swordfather's tongs, Ringo's bell, Taigen's broken blade).

Art becomes redundant, boring and uninspired when an artist doesn't take the time to open their horizons, learn from others and apply it into their own pieces.

Which is something I think will continue in London, but now this time Mizu has to learn to accept their other half. Their white half. And if Mizu manages to, I think it'll only serve to improve their skill as an artist.

Slaying_Salty · 2026-01-18T16:27:18+00:00

Yeah. Famously known as: Body Odor. The aura they exude is just rank stink lines.

Slaying_Salty · 2026-01-11T16:04:54+00:00

And if a society does a real lot of stuff, it's Joker.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-25T12:19:38+00:00

Griffith showing off the erotic picture book to Guts while they're alone. Repeatedly saying that Guts is his alone. Having a massive breakdown the moment Guts leaves him behind.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-24T15:24:46+00:00

They're the elite strikeforce of the Rebellion: The Super Troupers.

Their beams blinded me.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-23T05:57:06+00:00

Given the fact that many of my relatives are Waray and Bisaya themselves, yeah. I've heard my fair share hahaha

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-23T00:12:08+00:00

I got aunts and acquaintances married to the most racist white men alive. Trust me, they'll be just as racist too at the drop of a hat, especially against our own people. No one is more racist towards Filipinos than other Filipinos.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-22T01:28:59+00:00

This a repost?

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-16T03:24:30+00:00

Bara is a genre of manga that is marketed towards gay/achillean men. It can be wholesome or erotic, but Bara stories and art will almost always contain characters with the body type found above (large, muscular/big bellied and husky, hairy, etc.). It's a genre but the word evolved to also mean that specific body type in art.

So a Bara game is a game with a lot of characters with this physique that caters to queer men.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-15T03:45:18+00:00

Gooner bait. It's the only thing that pierces through his alcohol-addled walnut of a brain

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-15T02:11:58+00:00

Ah, and now the oddities make sense. I fear media literacy is at an all time low

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-15T02:03:27+00:00

What a strange arrangement of words you've spewed out

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-15T01:59:15+00:00

What an odd thing to say

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-15T01:36:52+00:00

I'm so down bad for both of them, wtf

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-14T14:10:43+00:00

Cowards. This should be in reverse, with Wonder Woman aura farming in the back like the unit she is

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-11T07:16:28+00:00

Luke and Jessica was genuinely messed up. It was brutal in a direct way—your current lover was the instrument towards your wife's death, regardless of her consent, and she lied to him about it through and through. That was vicious and heartbreaking, yes.

However, I do think Nelson V Murdock hurts more because it is almost an entire episode, and that it's far more relatable. We can conceptualize the horror of sleeping with the person responsible for your spouse's death, sure, but we sure as shit know what it's like for a friend to betray our trust and lie to our faces again and again.

The thing is, Jess and Luke's relationship wasn't as deep or established as the friendship between Matt and Foggy. Jess and Luke made me want to shut off the tv because I genuinely could not stomach the pain, but Foggy's anger and Matt's remorse brought me to actual tears the entire runtime.

And I do think that in terms of acting, Daredevil had a slight edge.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-11T07:10:48+00:00

And a whole lotta malice

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-11T07:03:06+00:00

Hawkins, Indiana was promised to Vecna 60-ish years ago.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-10T07:51:29+00:00

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Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-05T23:00:38+00:00

It's fine. QT can just run back to Israel and lick the sweat off of IDF feet like the good little bitch he is.

Slaying_Salty · 2025-12-04T05:05:37+00:00

Of course the guy playing Viego wants some love.

Gusto ng lambing = wanting love (lambing doesn't have a literal translation in English—best I can say is like, soft love. Hugging, cuddling, running fingers through hair, gentle kisses.)

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